D.R.P.I. Headlines
- April 17th, 2011: Cameron Wells from C.J.A.M. radio interviews Marcia Rioux on the D.R.P.I. project. Listen to the inteview or read the transcript of the interview.
- February 2, 2011: Participants in the D.R.P.I. Africa Regional Workshop have issued a Declaration for action on monitoring the rights of persons with disabilities.
- January 24, 2011: D.R.P.I. Africa Regional Training Workshop is underway in Kigali, Rwanda.
- January 10th, 2011: Re-opening the competition for the position of D.R.P.I. Latin America Regional Officer. Read details about the Latin America Regional Officer posting here.
- January 10th, 2011: Re-opening the competition for the position of D.R.P.I. Latin America Regional Officer. Read details about the Latin America Regional Officer posting here.
- Oct. 30th, 2010 - D.R.P.I. Eastern Europe Regional Officer, Aleksandar Bogdanović, begins work! Read more about Aleksandar Bogdanović.
- September 1, 2010 - D.R.P.I. Africa Regional Officer begins work! Oswald Tuyizere of Rwanda has taken on the position of Africa Regional Officer. Read more about Oswald Tuyizere here.
- September 1, 2010 - Congratulations to D.R.P.I. Advisory Committee Member, Theresia Degener of Germany, who has been elected to the U.N. Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for a 4 year term! Read more about the U.N. C.R.P.D. elections here.
- August 9 - Seeking applications for the position of D.R.P.I. Asia-Pacific Regional Officer. (This competition is now closed).
- August 1, 2010 - Seeking applications for the position of D.R.P.I. Eastern Europe Regional Officer. (This competition is now closed).
- July 11-17, 2010 - D.R.P.I. researchers Paula Pinto and Normand Boucher presented at the XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology in Gothenburg, Sweden.
- June 21, 2010: Seeking applications for the position of D.R.P.I. Africa Regional Officer. Read details about the Africa Regional Officer posting here. UPDATE: The deadline for applications closed on July 5th, 2010.
- May 31, 2010: Read D.R.P.I.'s briefing note on the use of the D.R.P.I. tools to Monitor the C.R.P.D.
- February 21, 2010: The D.R.P.I. India Country Monitoring Report is launched as part of the Silver Jubilee Celebrations of the National Institute for the Mentally Handicapped (N.I.M.H.), Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. Find out more about the Silver Jubilee Celebrations and read the India Country Report.
- December 3, 2009: Disabled Peoples' International (D.P.I.) congratulates D.R.P.I. on its work to empower people with disabilities in its e-Newsletter on International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Download the D.P.I. e-Report.
- October 28th 2009 (7- 9 pm EDT): D.R.P.I. Webinar. Presenters: Marcia Rioux, D.R.P.I. Co-Director and Paula Pinto, Post-Doctoral Scholar, D.R.P.I.-Canada, presented an interactive webinar about the Disability Rights Promotion International project. View the D.R.P.I. Webinar Powerpoint presentation here.
- August 25 to 29, 2009: Disability rights monitoring Training is held in St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador.
- August 24, 2009: Training workshop on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (I.C.E.S.C.R.) related to Disability is held in St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador.
- August, 2009: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) approves Phase Three of our D.R.P.I. work. Read more on D.R.P.I.'s goals for Phase Three.
- July 1st, 2009: The D.R.P.I. India final report entitled Monitoring the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities Country Report India, is now available
- June 12th, 2009: The D.R.P.I. Bolivia final report entitled Monitoring the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Bolivia, is now available
- December 15, 2008 – D.R.P.I. participates in workshop to on persons with disabilities monitoring the U.N. Disability Convention in New Zealand. For more information, download the agenda for the convention (PDF - 33KB).
- September 24-28, 2008 - D.R.P.I. Co-Director Marcia Rioux to lead a course on Human Rights and Disability as part of the PhD program in Critical Disability Studies at the University of Zagreb, Croatia.
- August 23-28, 2008 - D.R.P.I. Co-Director Marcia Rioux presents a keynote address entitled: "Promises and Panaceas: from the idealism of rights to the exercise of rights" and D.R.P.I. participants from Canada, Kenya and India lead a panel presentation entitled: "D.R.P.I.: A Holistic Approach to Monitoring the Human Rights of People with Disabilities in the Global World" (PowerPoint file - 7600 KB) at at the Rehabilitation International (R.I.) World Congress in Quebec City.
- July 14-20, 2008 - D.R.P.I. Bolivia holds a training seminar for disability rights monitors and site coordinators in Santa Cruz
- May 6 and 7, 2008 - D.R.P.I. Canada holds its annual project meeting at York University in Toronto, bringing together members of the disability community and academics from across the country
- December 2007 - The report entitled State of Disabled Peoples' Rights in Kenya (2007) is now available in both PDF format and HTML format
- November 2007 - D.R.P.I. Canada hosts a six-day training seminar for disability rights monitors and site coordinators at York University in Toronto.
- August 2007 - The D.R.P.I. Cameroon final report entitled Study on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Cameroon is now available
- July 2007 - D.R.P.I. Kenya issues a new report entitled State of Disabled Peoples' Rights in Kenya (2007)
- June 2007 - The D.R.P.I Progress Report is now online. You can download the D.R.P.I. Progress Report as a PDF file or you can read the D.R.P.I. Progress Report online in html format.
- March 2007 - D.R.P.I. issues new report: Moving Forward - Progress in Global Disability Rights Monitoring.
- November 6, 2006 - D.R.P.I. Co-Director Bengt Lindqvist speaks at European Disability Forum Conference - Achieving disability rights through mainstreaming at regional and local level ... read more
- D.R.P.I. secures funding for disability rights monitoring in Canada ... read more